fix(package): ignore status check failure

Dirtiness check for symlinks is mostly informational.
And changes in submodule would fail git-status as well (see #15384).
To avoid adding complicated logic to handle that,
for now we ignore the status check failure.

src/cargo/ops/cargo_package/vcs.rs

@@ -268,8 +268,22 @@ fn dirty_files_outside_pkg_root(
         // Handle files outside package root but under git workdir,
         .filter_map(|p| paths::strip_prefix_canonical(p, workdir).ok())
     {
-        if repo.status_file(&rel_path)? != git2::Status::CURRENT {
+        match repo.status_file(&rel_path) {
-            dirty_files.insert(workdir.join(rel_path));
+            Ok(git2::Status::CURRENT) => {}
+            Ok(_) => {
+                dirty_files.insert(workdir.join(rel_path));
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                // Dirtiness check for symlinks is mostly informational.
+                // And changes in submodule would fail git-status as well (see #15384).
+                // To avoid adding complicated logic to handle that,
+                // for now we ignore the status check failure.
+                debug!(
+                    "failed to get status from file `{}` in git repo at `{}`: {e}",
+                    rel_path.display(),
+                    workdir.display()
+                );
+            }
         }
     }
     Ok(dirty_files)

tests/testsuite/package.rs

@@ -1467,9 +1467,9 @@ fn dirty_file_outside_pkg_root_inside_submodule() {
     p.change_file("submodule/file.txt", "changed");
 
     p.cargo("package --workspace --no-verify")
-        .with_status(101)
         .with_stderr_data(str![[r#"
-[ERROR] attempt to get status of nonexistent file 'submodule/file.txt'; class=Invalid (3); code=NotFound (-3)
+[PACKAGING] isengard v0.0.0 ([ROOT]/foo/isengard)
+[PACKAGED] 6 files, [FILE_SIZE]B ([FILE_SIZE]B compressed)
 
 "#]])
         .run();